vonfram88
Active member
The old ticker can only take so much. It supports 100kg with short plumbing distances but seems to fail when faced with the problem of supplying a 150kg behemoth with greater distances to circulate the blood. Add in the extreme intrathoracic pressure that accompanies such enormous force generation and we have an cause for the unfortunate level of mortality amongst the giants of strongman and powerlifting. A few cc of the favourite cocktails doesn't help either. It doesn't just cause embrittlement of tendons, it destroys blood vessels too.